When:‎‎ Wednesday, March 5, and Thursday, March 6, 2025 
Where:: Heidelberg, Germany
Conference language: German
Business Technology Platform, SAP BTP, will become the defining ERP strategy according to the SAP community. The Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025 presents Abap, CAP, RAP, and Steampunk (embedded Abap), with SAP BTP as the SAP Basis platform and ERP successor for S/4 Hana.

Why steampunk and SAP BTP?
Composable-ERP

The possibilities with the revamped Abap and cloud functions on the Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) are enormous. The future of ERP, even beyond S/4 Hana, will be shaped by BTP, CAP and RAP. Options for innovative end-to-end processes are opening up for existing SAP customers and partners: The future is a composable ERP.

Clean Core also means end-of-life for ERP as the SAP community has known it up to now. With Business Technology Platform, a new ERP universe with a best-of-breed philosophy is emerging. The metamorphosis began in 2023 and continued with the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024 in Heidelberg. SAP BTP becomes the core of a new ERP generation!

Steampunk: CAP and RAP on BTP

Christian Knell from SAP partner Snap opened the steampunk educational journey on June 1, 2023 in Salzburg at the SAP Competence Center Summit. The first public presentation on this topic was a highlight of the event in Salzburg and amazed everyone in the audience.

In his E3 Magazine article, Christian Knell, Managing Partner at Snap Consulting, describes the importance of BTP:
Click here for the E3 magazine article by Christian Knell

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Program

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

8.00 to 10.00

Registration, coffee and exhibition

10.00 to 10.10 a.m.

Welcome

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

10.10 to 10.30 a.m.

BTP keynote speech

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

10.30 to 11.15 a.m.

Introductory talk with:

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

11.15 to 12.00 a.m.

SAP BTP from the perspective of an SAP partner

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Discussion round

With Joachim Hackmann, Wolfram Jost and others.

12.30 till 14.00

Exhibition visit and lunch break

14.00 till 14.45

Agrana A~QU~A - SAP BTP, Low-Code and CAP as key components
for a cost-efficient, global solution

For around 3,000 employees at 58 locations worldwide, the Austrian industrial group Agrana needs a modern, group-wide standardized quality management tool. "Steampunk" Christian Knell from snap describes the genesis of the high-performance and globally deployable Agrana A~QU~A solution, which was developed using SAP BTP (CAP) and agile methodology.

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

14.45 till 15.30

Efficient terminal & partner management:
ABAP cloud solutions using the example of airport operator Fraport

In the presentation, valantic explains the use of the ABAP Cloud Environment based on SAP BTP at Fraport AG. The airport operator has developed customized apps for process optimization of terminal and business partner management and seamlessly integrated them with C4C, CDC, SAP ERP and BW.

Sascha Göpfert,
Senior Manager SAP BTP Application Development at valantic
 

15.30 till 16.15

Coffee and exhibition

16.15 till 17.00

SAP Security & Compliance - Understand your Risk!

SAP systems are extremely attractive targets for cyber attacks. Protecting business-critical SAP systems is a highly complex task for SAP, IT security and audit departments. Learn from NO MONKEY how to understand, assess and efficiently minimize the attack surface in SAP.

Jochen Fischer, 
CEO & Co-Founder NO MONKEY

17.00 till 17.45

Microsoft Azure and SAP - The best of both worlds!

Application development, low code and artificial intelligence meet SAP applications in combination with M365 products.

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

17.45 till 18.30

Q&A in the exhibition area

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

18.30 to 19.00

Break

19.00 to 00.00

Evening event

Thursday 29 February 2024

8.30 to 8.45

Welcome

8.45 to 9.30

From the bottom to the top: security in SAP BTP

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

09.30 to 10.15

The platform paradigm of the ERP scene

Robert Müller, 
CEO of Scheer PAS GmbH

10.15 to 11.00

Coffee and exhibition

11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.

Steampunk, BTP & Azure

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Azure questions and answers

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

Moderation

Peter M. Färbinger,
Editor-in-Chief, E3 Magazine

12.30 till 14.00

Lunch break and exhibition

14.00 till 14.45

Implementation steps of a RAP app

Ann-Christin Fleischle, M.Sc.
Research Associate | SAP University Competence Center
Technical University Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology (SoCIT)

14.45 to 16.00

Coffee, farewell and exhibition

Program

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

8.00 to 10.00

Registration, coffee and partners

10.00 to 10.15

Welcome

Peter M. Färbinger

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor-in-Chief,
E3 Magazine

10.15 to 10.45 a.m.

BTP, S/4 and Clean Core

Keynote speech

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

10.45 to 11.30 a.m.

Clean Core, Steampunk, CAP and SAP
Old wine in new bottles?

Keynote
With the 3-tier model, SAP makes it possible to adapt classic ABAP code to the ABAP Cloud Standards (SAP Clean Core). In his usual provocative manner, steampunk and ABAP aficionado Christian Knell invites you to the ultimate knowledge transfer. Topics of his keynote: Tier 1-3, onStack, side-by-side, RAP, CAP, Integration Suite, Event Mesh, Key-User and Developer Extensibility at a glance. Predicate worth seeing!

Christian Knell,
Managing Partner,
Snap Consulting

11.30 am to 12.15 pm

Platform plus - supplement to BTP

Keynote in English language
Get the best out of SAP with Boomi's AI-powered integration with other business applications!

Join us for an insightful session to realize the full potential of SAP through Boomi's AI-powered integration with other business applications. Learn how you can use AI to optimize processes, improve data accuracy and drive innovation to ultimately maximize the value of your SAP investment. Learn practical strategies and gain insights into effective integration solutions that can transform your business operations.

Donna Matthews,
SAP Ecosystem Leader,
Boomi

12.15 to 13.00

Clean Core

Keynote

From clean core strategy to action - a SAP Partner view

ifm has been successful on the market with classic ABAP add-ons since 2005. What does the SAP software partner think about Clean Core and what challenges does ifm see in implementing this strategy? Is BTP the measure of all things or do you prefer "on-stack"?

Björn Dunkel, 
Managing Director,
ifm

Fynn Scheld,
Senior Software Developer
ifm

13.00 to 14.00

Lunch break and partners

14.00 till 14.45

SAP BTP - Yes, but safe!

Lecture

SAP customers who build and operate their own applications on SAP BTP should secure them in the best possible way. Not only should the SAP security recommendations be implemented, but security monitoring and ABAP code security are also needed to protect the applications from cyberattacks.

Holger Hügel, 
Product Management Director,
Security Bridge

14.45 till 15.30

Simplify custom code migration: ECCA as the key to a fast and cost-saving solution

Lecture

Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) simplifies custom code migrations by automating code analysis and adaptation. This reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, accelerates migration and lowers costs while increasing quality.

Dominik Wagner,
Head of Uvance Horizontal Sales & Presales,
Fujitsu Germany GmbH

No release of the PDF presentation by the author.
15.30 till 16.15

Coffee break and partners

16.15 till 17.00

SAP licenses and BTP: What works, what needs to be considered, what are possible pitfalls?

Lecture

Dr. Jana Jentzsch,
Managing Director,
MARAIT Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

17.00 till 17.45

Understanding DevOps & Security in SAP BTP

Lecture

In today's digital landscape, where cyber threats and data protection risks are constantly increasing, the protection of business-critical SAP systems is essential. The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is establishing itself as a central component of these environments. A key factor here is the SAP Clean Core approach, which SAP regards as a proven strategy for future-proof and easy-to-maintain custom code development in the cloud.

This presentation shows how a Shift Left-It will show how a holistic code scanning strategy across different technologies and the integration of DevSecOps practices can help identify vulnerabilities early, reduce security risks and enable efficient development. It also provides insights into the latest security features and best practices for implementation and maintenance in the SAP BTP environment.

Stefan Eckstein,
SAP Security Pre-Sales Engineer,
Onapsis

No release of the PDF presentation by the author.
17.45 till 18.30

BTP SaaS applications as a central hub for hybrid cloud architectures of the future

Lecture

The mapping of even complex applications with integration to various on-premise and cloud applications in the clean-core approach could now be the market standard for add-on developments in the SAP environment and is a valuable decoupling level for the preparation and implementation of S/4 migrations. operayo gives examples of realized products on the BTP with different architectures and integration scenarios and explains causes and solutions for the currently still limited use of the platform.

Oliver Schreiber,
Founder,
Operayo

6.30 to 7.30 p.m.

Q&A in the exhibition area

19.30 to 23.00

Evening event

Thursday, March 6, 2025

8.30 to 8.45

Welcome

Peter M. Färbinger

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor-in-Chief,
E3 Magazine

8.45 to 9.30

Clean Core extensions with SAP BTP

Lecture in English language
In the E3 December cover story Siarhei Valenda has shared the insights not only into the clean core approaches for SAP S/4HANA Migration, but also explored the ways of using SAP BTP services and customised solutions for handling business challenges. LeverX would be excited to take the stage and highlight the power of side-by-side extensions and best practices.

Siarhei Valenda,
Head of Automated Information Systems Development,
LeverX

9.30 to 10.15 a.m.

Mandatory e-invoicing from 2025: Innovative solutions from Nagarro at SAP BTP

Keynote

From January 1, 2025, companies in Germany will have to process e-invoices. Find out how you can efficiently automate invoice receipt with the Nagarro Invoice Scanner and effortlessly create e-invoices directly from SAP with the Nagarro Invoice Sender. 

Both solutions are specially developed on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and are available for both SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC.

Ulrich Winter,
Head of Application Development,
Nagarro

10.15 to 11.00

Coffee break and partners

11.00 to 11.45

ABAP Cloud - Innovations in the ABAP world

Lecture

Learn everything you need to know about ABAP Cloud in this presentation. How will you develop application jobs or send emails from the system in the future? This and much more will be presented in this presentation using practical examples.

Sven Treutler,
Developer,
rku.it GmbH 

11.45 to 12.30

Agile, offshoring, middleware ... and other fails 

Lecture

Agile project management, extended workbench, middleware, etc. are great things that were initiated by the developer community. And then the ideas are commercialized and a great idea becomes a nightmare for the project because tools like Jira, SaFE, Signavio become more important than people.

Axel Angeli,
Digital Transformation Evangelist,
SAP Project Rescue

12.30 to 13.30

Lunch break and partners

13.30 to 14.15

Use case with live demo 

Lecture

Take a look at Boomi's native SAP integration features!
You use the best enterprise applications, including SAP, to manage your business-critical processes. Maximize the value of SAP and other applications now with AI-powered integration from the world's most widely used integration platform as a service (iPaaS).

In this demo session you will learn: 

  • How Boomi's unique, SAP-certified native connector reduces manual integration time and effort between SAP and non-SAP applications.
  • How Boomi's AI agents can help you radically increase your productivity by drawing on 300 million integration patterns to perform tasks autonomously and safely.

Alexander Bode,
Enterprise Solution Consultant,
Boomi

Mr. Bodes, who was ill, was replaced during the presentation by a spontaneous live broadcast from his colleague Diego Alcantara (Presales Engineer).

14.15 to 15.00

How to phish your way to SAP_ALL in BTP - A mind game

Lecture

Do you think all access to SAP cloud services and their controls are handled by a central identity provider? You think all accesses and the assignment of accesses are logged centrally at your company? In reality, many roads can lead to Rome for an attacker - in fact, new ones are constantly being added.

Let's take a look together at the role of the S-User, Universal Identity and Broken Glass user concepts and why phishing-resistant login procedures are often desired, but not always given and even less always centrally enforced.

Marco Hammel,
Co-Founder and CTO,
NO MONKEY

15.00 to 15.45

Competitive advantages through AI and automation  

Closing keynote 

Business-critical processes that span multiple systems and departments often involve manual and repetitive tasks. Learn how you can simplify migrations and efficiently automate applications and business processes with BTP, Signavio and a UiPath add-on.

Goran Guliš,
EMEA SAP Business Development Lead,
UiPath

15.45 to 16.00

Summary of the Summit

Peter M. Färbinger

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor-in-Chief,
E3 Magazine

16.00 to 17.00

Coffee, farewell and exhibition

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg
Here to the Google location

Date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

8.00 to 10.00

Registration, coffee and exhibition

10.00 to 10.10 a.m.

Welcome

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

10.10 to 10.30 a.m.

BTP keynote speech

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

10.30 to 11.15 a.m.

Introductory talk with:

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Joachim Hackmann
Principal Analyst, Head of BAS Practice, PAC

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

11.15 to 12.00 a.m.

SAP BTP from the perspective of an SAP partner

Dr. Wolfram Jost
Managing Director Scheer Holding and CTO

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Discussion round

With Joachim Hackmann, Wolfram Jost and others.

12.30 till 14.00

Exhibition visit and lunch break

14.00 till 14.45

Agrana A~QU~A - SAP BTP, Low-Code and CAP as key components
for a cost-efficient, global solution

For around 3,000 employees at 58 locations worldwide, the Austrian industrial group Agrana needs a modern, group-wide standardized quality management tool. "Steampunk" Christian Knell from snap describes the genesis of the high-performance and globally deployable Agrana A~QU~A solution, which was developed using SAP BTP (CAP) and agile methodology.

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

14.45 till 15.30

Efficient terminal & partner management:
ABAP cloud solutions using the example of airport operator Fraport

In the presentation, valantic explains the use of the ABAP Cloud Environment based on SAP BTP at Fraport AG. The airport operator has developed customized apps for process optimization of terminal and business partner management and seamlessly integrated them with C4C, CDC, SAP ERP and BW.

Sascha Göpfert,
Senior Manager SAP BTP Application Development at valantic
 

15.30 till 16.15

Coffee and exhibition

16.15 till 17.00

SAP Security & Compliance - Understand your Risk!

SAP systems are extremely attractive targets for cyber attacks. Protecting business-critical SAP systems is a highly complex task for SAP, IT security and audit departments. Learn from NO MONKEY how to understand, assess and efficiently minimize the attack surface in SAP.

Jochen Fischer, 
CEO & Co-Founder NO MONKEY

17.00 till 17.45

Microsoft Azure and SAP - The best of both worlds!

Application development, low code and artificial intelligence meet SAP applications in combination with M365 products.

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

17.45 till 18.30

Q&A in the exhibition area

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Christian Knell, 
Managing Partner at Snap Consulting

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

Moderation:

Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine

18.30 to 19.00

Break

19.00 to 00.00

Evening event

Thursday 29 February 2024

8.30 to 8.45

Welcome

8.45 to 9.30

From the bottom to the top: security in SAP BTP

Christoph Nagy
Managing Director and specialist for SAP security at Security Bridge

09.30 to 10.15

The platform paradigm of the ERP scene

Robert Müller, 
CEO of Scheer PAS GmbH

10.15 to 11.00

Coffee and exhibition

11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.

Steampunk, BTP & Azure

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

12.00 to 12.30 p.m.

Azure questions and answers

Stefan Eller,
Managing Director at itmX

Holger Bruchelt, 
Program Manager, Architect for SAP at Microsoft

Bernhard Friess,
Sales Specialist SAP on Azure at Microsoft

Moderation

Peter M. Färbinger,
Editor-in-Chief, E3 Magazine

12.30 till 14.00

Lunch break and exhibition

14.00 till 14.45

Implementation steps of a RAP app

Ann-Christin Fleischle, M.Sc.
Research Associate | SAP University Competence Center
Technical University Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology (SoCIT)

14.45 to 16.00

Coffee, farewell and exhibition

The future of S/4 Hana is still uncertain. SAP guarantees software maintenance until 2040, but until then and beyond? There are already numerous business and organizational challenges that cannot be solved with the standard processes of the S/4 private and public cloud.

Many existing SAP customers are about to transfer their Abap modifications to a future S/4 Hana system. What happens to the innovations in the Z namespace? Neither the SAP Private Cloud nor the Public Cloud provide satisfactory answers to this question. There are still media discontinuities in many SAP business processes and there is a lack of verified end-to-end scenarios. Third-party systems will continue to supply external data to S/4 in the future. S/4 Hana will become an integrated part of a composable ERP over the next few years. Only with Business Technology Platform, SAP BTP, can the rescue of successful Abap modifications, the development of new E2E processes and the orchestration of a Composable ERP succeed.

The Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025 provides the answers regarding an ERP architecture, CAP, RAP and BTP including and beyond S/4 Hana, because the ERP world and SAP community will not cease to exist after 2040.

If you have any further suggestions or ideas for the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025, please do not hesitate to contact me. Call me on +49/8654/77130-21 or write to me at pmf@b4bmedia.net.

Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing you again in Heidelberg,

Peter M. Färbinger
Peter M. Färbinger
Editor in Chief E3 Magazine
On the way to Hana and S/4 and beyond, questions arise regarding existing Abap modifications and the development of new Fior apps and E2E processes with CAP and RAP. Many of these questions will be answered on March 5 and 6, 2025 in Heidelberg.

Sponsors

SNAP Consulting

snap Consulting

snap Consulting - your reliable S/4HANA (onPremises, Public and Private Edition) partner for SAP logistics, pharmaceutical wholesale, maintenance (EAM), healthcare and technology consulting and development (ABAP, RAP, CAP, Fiori, ...). With our SAP best-practice software line - snapWARE - and our experience workshops (e.g. digital signature, CDS/RAP and Fiori), we support you or your employees with know-how and expertise in the transformation to S/4HANA. We are happy to assist you with the implementation of side-by-side applications or integration tasks using SAP CI on SAP BTP.

ifm

As an SAP Silver Partner, ifm offers holistic software solutions integrated into the SAP system for efficiency and transparency in the supply chain. Internationally, ifm has been known as an automation specialist for decades. Since 2016, ifm has also been digitizing business processes and integrating them into the SAP ERP system. The Supply Chain Excellence solution optimizes the supply chain from planning to inventory management. The solutions run on SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP S/4HANA, on-premises and in the cloud. Over 1000 customers worldwide use ifm supply chain solutions.

Boomi

Boomi, the market leader in intelligent integration and automation, helps organizations around the world automate and streamline critical processes to achieve business results faster. The Boomi Enterprise Platform uses advanced AI capabilities to seamlessly connect systems and manage data flows with API management, integration, data management and AI orchestration in one comprehensive solution. With a customer base of more than 20,000 companies worldwide and a rapidly growing network of over 800 partners, Boomi is revolutionizing the way companies of all sizes achieve business agility and operational excellence.

Discover more at boomi.com/en.

Exhibitor

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More information will follow shortly.

Do you want to exhibit with your company?

We will be happy to inform you! Contact us here for a non-binding consultation.
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The highlights from 2025

Our cooperation partners

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Informationen Teilnehmer:

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Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.

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